What is the deepest flooded cave in the world, located in the Czech Republic?
Answer
Hranice Abyss
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What is the longest cave in the Indian subcontinent?
Answer
Krem Liat Prah
Which venomous snake produces the largest quantity of venom per bite?
Answer
Gaboon viper
Which snake's venom is the source of the neurotoxin α-bungarotoxin?
Answer
Many-banded krait
Which cone snail's venom contains a potent insulin that causes hypoglycemic shock?
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Conus geographus
Which venomous lizard's venom is the source of the diabetes drug exenatide?
Answer
Gila monster
What is the name of the thickest temperate glacier in the world?
Answer
Taku Glacier
What is the name of the longest glacier in the Tien Shan mountain range?
Answer
Inylchek Glacier
What is the name of the glacier in Alaska that surged over 10 km in 2011?
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Bering Glacier
What is the nickname of Thwaites Glacier due to its potential sea-level rise?
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Doomsday Glacier
What is the name of the glacier that sits above the deepest continental point on Earth?
Answer
Denman Glacier
What is the name of the largest complete ammonite fossil ever found, with a diameter of over 2.5 meters?
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Parapuzosia seppenradensis
What is the name of the largest fossilized ammonite ever found?
Answer
Parapuzosia seppenradensis
What is the common name for extinct arthropods of the order Eurypterida?
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Sea scorpions
What is the study of fossilized pollen and spores called?
Answer
Palynology
What is the name of the oldest known fossil of a land animal?
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Pneumodesmus newmani
What is the oogenus name for the largest known dinosaur eggs?
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Macroelongatoolithus
Which Tanzanian site preserves 3.6 million-year-old hominid footprints?
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Laetoli footprints
What term describes a fossil formed by compression and flattening?
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Compression fossil
Which eel species migrates from Japanese rivers to the Mariana Trench to spawn?
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Japanese eel
Which shark species migrates over 1,000 miles across the Pacific, from California to Hawaii?
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great white shark
Which bird has been recorded flying at over 100 miles per hour during level flight?
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white-throated needletail
The Christmas Island red crab spawning migration is synchronized with which lunar phase?
Answer
Last quarter moon
Which hurricane in 1992 was the first to strike Hawaii as a major hurricane?
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Hurricane Iniki
Which hurricane was the first to be observed by satellite in 1961?
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Hurricane Esther
Which is the earliest officially recorded Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic basin?
Answer
1924 Cuba hurricane
Which hurricane is the deadliest in Canadian history?
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Hurricane Hazel
Which U.S. landfalling hurricane holds the record for the lowest barometric pressure?
Answer
1935 Labor Day hurricane
What is the name of the fault that ruptured in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake?
Answer
Sunda megathrust
What is the precise date of the 1960 Valdivia earthquake?
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May 22, 1960